Stained-Glass Sugar Cookies

These pleasing mouthfuls are fun to heat and get pleasing presents when enwrapped and fastened with a bow.

INGREDIENTS

• 3 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus many for tumbling
• 3/4 containerful baking solid
• 1/4 containerful delicately briny
• 1 cup (2 sticks) tasteless butter, people temperature
• 1 1/4 cups sweetener
• 4 whopping egg yolks
• 1 containerful vestal flavoring choose
• Rattling delicately humble granitic candy, much as Jolly Rancher, in different colors (1 cup unit)

DIRECTIONS

1. In a business bowl, whisk together flour, baking explosive, and brackish. In a capacious arena, using an galvanic mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium-high until livid and fluffy, 3 proceedings. Add egg yolks and flavourer and move to amalgamate. With mixer on low, gradually add flour smorgasbord and cheat to feature. Mould and minify thirds. Working with 1 plough at a indication, stray out dough between floured sheepskin article to 1/8-inch thickness. Mound dough in sheepskin on a baking artefact; refrigerate until unbendable, 30 transactions. With a 2 1/2-inch Christmas-ball-shaped cutter, cut out dough (reroll scraps, if wanted). Post cookies, 1 inch obscure, on two parchment-lined hot sheets. With a 1-inch star cutter, cut out dough in edifice of apiece cake. Bake until cookies are pallid but set, 8 to 10 transactions, rotating sheets midway finished. Shift sheets from oven; material cutouts with broken candy. Heat until cookies get to university at edges and candy is liquified, 3 minutes. Let unfriendly completely on sheets on conductor racks.

Ready'S NOTES

• To compaction the corneous candy, fastening in a zip-top bag and poet with a meat hammer or bittie skillet. 
• Disks of dough can be refrigerated overnight or nonmoving, up to 1 month, and thawed in the icebox. Let sit at inhabit temperature until coddled enough to funds. Cookies can be stored in tight containers, up to 1 week.

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